High Roller Hold’Em
Three Olympians from the inaugural U.S. slopestyle snowboarding team will compete in the High Roller Hold’Em at Heavenly Mountain Resort on April 4.
Gold medalist Sage Kotsenburg will place his bets against fellow Olympians Billy Morgan and Chas Guldemond, as well as High Roller Hold‘Em veterans Gjermund Braaten and Eric Willett.
High Roller Hold ‘Em combines the thrill of snowboard big air with the strategy of high-stakes poker into an event that sends the winner home with $50,000.
This year the stakes are even higher, with the overall winner receiving automatic entrance to the 2016 X Games big air event.
Competitors will be dealt three cards per hand with each card featuring different tricks based on the face value of the card. From there, each rider will discard two cards, and bet accordingly on the final card in their hand. Once all bets are in, the riders who haven’t folded will head to the top of the course, where the rider who lands the trick with the highest level of difficulty will win the round and qualify for the $50,000 super final.
It will take place on World Cup run. It is free for spectators.
Sounds like fun, wish I was 21 again.